Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home
We've
reached a tipping point where a majority of states now have laws that
protect employees of smaller employers. Most federal discrimination laws
protect employees only if their employers have 15 employees or more (20
for age discrimination, all employers for Equal Pay Act, 4 - 14 for
national origin/citizenship under the The Immigration Reform and Control
Act of 1986). But a majority of states
Syria Comment
The plight of the Druze hostages: Why Washington should change its
approach in Syria By Talal el-Atrache – @ TalalElAtrache For Syria
Comment – 8 Nov 2018 Throughout the Syrian war, the Southern Province of
Sweida, in coordination with the Syrian army, had succeeded in
protecting itself against the jihadist attacks on the province’s Western
border with Deraa, and on the Eastern flank, adjacent to
Vagabond Scholar
(Click
on the comic strip for a larger view.) In 1959, Pogo creator Walt Kelly
wrote: The eleventh day of the eleventh month has always seemed to me
to be special. Even if the reason for it fell apart as the years went
on, it was a symbol of something close to the high part of the heart.
Perhaps a life that stretches through two or three wars takes its first
war rather seriously, but I still
Today,
11/11/18, marks the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, the
Great War, the supposed War to End All Wars that unfortunately didn't.
I've always been struck by how eager nations were to go to war at the
start and how horrific the reality often was. By the end, by most
estimates, about 8.5 million soldiers were dead and the total casualty
count was about 37.5 million. Add in a
Get
out and vote on Tuesday, if you haven't already! This post will collate
some California and Los Angeles County resources. California voters
should already have received the official voter information guide in the
mail, but it's also online and available in multiple languages.
Unfortunately, some candidates don't include statements, but the guide
is particularly useful for seeing who's
What Is Sustainable
Stephen Pyne is among the world’s foremost experts on fire, and the
author of many books. California: A Fire Survey presents a blazing
discussion on how fire has perplexed and bedeviled the Golden State. One
of every nine Americans lives in California. Thanks to the arrival of
industrial civilization, 170 years of rapid growth, and a culture
devoted to the hardcore pursuit of wealth and excess, t
[Note: This is the third sample from my rough draft of a far from
finished new book, Wild Free & Happy . I don’t plan on reviewing
more books for a while. My blog is home to reviews of 196 books, and you
are very welcome to explore them. The Search field on the right side
will find words in the full contents of all rants and reviews, if you
are interested in specific authors, titles, or subjects.
The Rise of Homo Sapiens , by Frederick Coolidge (psychologist) and
Thomas Wynn (anthropologist), is a book about the evolution of human
cognition. It describes the seven million year voyage that resulted in
the magnificent mind that’s throbbing between your ears right now. This
voyage began with the first hominins — bipedal (two legged) apes who
were either our direct ancestors, or our long lost
WWF - Latest News
Sharm-El-Sheikh, 29th November 2018 : The 14th Conference of the
Parties (COP14) of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity
(CBD) ended today with an agreement on the preparatory process for a
post-2020 global framework, moving us closer to a transformational New
Deal for Nature and People in 2020 - a vital step to ramp up global
efforts to halt today's unprecedented and dangerous b
The Conference of the Parties (COP 14), of the United Nations
Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), is currently being held in
Egypt. The meeting will end 29 November and has the post 2020 objective
of increasing national and international efforts to stop and reverse the
loss of biodiversity and protect natural ecosystems that support our
life on Earth. The program Colombia Heritage played a
Sharm-El-Sheikh, 15 November, 2018 : The High Level Segment for the UN
Convention on Biological Diversity Conference (CBD CoP14) concluded
today with the adoption of the Sharm-El-Sheikh declaration by the 196
Parties. However, it is clear we are failing to address nature loss;
WWF's recent Living Planet Report showed that biodiversity continues to
decline, having devastating consequences for peop
Alongside the all-too-visible deforestation, the Amazon is facing an
invisible but increasing threat from mercury pollution according to a
new WWF report released today at the 2 nd Conference of the Parties to
the Minamata Convention on Mercury in Geneva, Switzerland. Healthy
Rivers, Healthy People highlights the dangers mercury pollution poses
across the Amazon and calls for urgent action to red
A Different Perspective
It struck me that since I have published a couple of articles that
either attempted to explain the Roswell debris or explain the whole of
the crash scenario, it was only fair to look at it from the other side.
Just yesterday, as I was provided many references to James Carrion’s
book, I also received, from Tony Bragalia, a link to an article he had
written about Wernher von Braun and his connectio
Over the last few hours, I have received a half dozen notifications
about James Carrion’s book about the Roswell UFO crash, The Roswell
Deception . Carrion’s been working on it for a long time, and, has
“previewed” parts of it on several James Carrion. Photo copyright by
Kevin Randle occasions. The book is long so that I haven’t had time to
read the whole thing yet. I do know that he is passionat
Well, here we go again. Another reason to dislike Ufology. This time I
find myself engaged in a discussion over semantics. I have to wonder
what is the proper terminology for these things that people claim are
buzzing around Earth. And this is just another part of a much larger,
societal problem with nearly everyone requiring everyone else conform to
their personal beliefs and to use their person
No, I wasn’t going to review each episode of The Curse of Oak Island
because it just doesn’t seem to be worth the effort. They have all
fallen into a pattern, and last week’s episode (No.2) was no exception.
However, they did one thing that annoyed me. Once again, near the
surface, meaning buried in six or seven inches of soil, they found a
hunk of jewelry that had a large red stone set in the ce
Tucker Carlson might be a wiz at political commentary (or he might not
be depending on your point of view) but when it comes to UFOs, he knows
nothing. He demonstrated that again just last night, November 13. He was
discussing the report of a UFO by a couple of airline crews and played
the tape of the discussion with air traffic control. He then brought on
someone else who knows nothing about UFO
I’m outraged… outraged, I say. In the last couple of days, I have been
bombarded with nonsense in books, on the Internet and on television.
Just when I think we have heard the last of some of the nonsense out
there, someone feels the obligation to resurrect it with another
half-baked, ignorant theory. Let’s start with the book. I had ordered,
through Kindle, a book on conspiracies, not that I’m e
A Very Public Sociologist
Call me perverse, call me morbid. For years I've looked forward to
attending a funeral. This isn't to mark the death of some hated
acquaintance or public figure. No, the dream is the demise of an
institution, the entirely welcome expiration of the Conservative Party. I
want to be there when it is lowered into the ground, to make sure the
earth is heaped upon its blasted coffin and check, check, a
New month, old posts. What happened to be the most popular reads in
November? 1. Is the Conservative Party about to Die? 2. Thoughts on the
Tory Crisis 3. Was New Labour Neoliberal? 4. Has Jeremy Corbyn Saved the
Labour Party? 5. Labour's Tax Bombshell Given the uncertainty governing
British politics, it's fitting last month's selection of posts feature
so many questions. As all commentary now is
John McDonnell's remarks aren't official Labour Party policy, but let's
run with them. We know Theresa May's Brexit deal won't pass muster in
the Commons, regardless of TV debates and threatening backbenchers with
imminent doom . What happens next? We are seeing a convergence between
the reality wing of the Tories and leading Labour lights around a Plan
B. This deal is a proper soft Brexit, an ar
What was Theresa May's game? Running scared of head-to-head TV debates
during the general election, and coming off second in the
debates-by-proxy that did happen, why issue a live debate challenge to
Jeremy Corbyn? Well, it turns out this isn't happening because Number 10
has reeled the kite in and sent out a blanket denial. Oh well. From the
standpoint of the Tories, however, such a debate isn't
Jeremy Corbyn saved the Labour Party. This feat was accomplished by
winning the leadership election in 2015, recruiting hundreds of
thousands of new members, registered and affiliated supporters, and
building a new coalition of voters uniting the comparatively better off
with those at the sharp end . In so doing, Labour in England and Wales
avoided the fates of the Socialists in France, Labour in
Imagine shooting someone for a packet of cheese and onion crisps in the
blasted ruins of Sheffield. With the announcement of Theresa May's
withdrawal deal, it appears, for now, that a Threads Brexit is off the
table. But what smörgåsbord of culinary goodies can we look forward to
instead? The 600 pages of the withdrawal agreement looks like a meaty
affair, but almost two-and-a-half years on from
Adrienne's Corner
you really should watch this - at least twice. We can thank the media
for a good part of the ills of this world. There are bad people. There
always will be bad people. There are good people, and always will be
good people. The media is going to make damn sure you only hear from and
about the bad people. Governor Bevin is talking about our degraded
culture, driven by the media in my opinion, to gl
and you should believe me. Mueller is so stupid that he doesn't even
realize he just dumped all over his "star" witness. If a man lies under
oath once, he'll do it again. The only people buying into this nonsense
are suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome™ and will believe anything
that they think shows Trump in a bad light. President Trump’s former
attorney — Michael Cohen — has pleaded guilt
the reason? Gonzaga University’s vice president of student development,
Judi Biggs Garbuio, denied the school’s College Republicans chapter’s
request to bring Shapiro to campus, citing protests and safety issues,
and arguing that such an event would go against Gonzaga’s mission
statement. Mr. Shapiro’s appearances routinely draw protests that
include extremely divisive and hateful speech and beha
and it only cost us $1500.00 Arrrrrrrrgh! My doggie, Frankie, erupted
in screams of pain yesterday about 5pm. He'd been acting off for a few
days, and I had been watching him closely. He was rushed to the vet,
x-rayed, and it was determined that somehow he swallowed a rock. Frankie
is a 12 lb dog and after emergency surgery, the vets office was
surprised he could have even swallowed such a large
a battle between good and evil. I know that many of you have already
voted. On November 6th I will head to our local polling place and cast
my ballot for the Republican party. Hanging with my red state peeps,
marking my ballot (paper), sliding it into a locked box, and having the
elderly poll worker call out, "Adrienne Streeter has voted", is very
important to me. Never mind this crap about votin
but hey, like, you know, it's like okay 'cause like borders are stupid
and like no one is "illegal" like we shouldn't have borders, like - you
know? These born again socialists are as ugly in their personal
appearance and behavior (like let's lie around on the filthy floor
'cause it's cool - or something) as their virtue signalling warped
little anti-American, a nti-constitution, anti-capitalism,
ArmsControlWonk
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has recently taken a significant step
in its nuclear research and development program that at the same time
illuminates Riyadh’s best route for demonstrating transparency in
nuclear safeguards. On November 6, the KSA announced it has broken
ground on the country’s first nuclear reactor, a research installation
rated …
Last
year, cameras in Japan noticed an object streaking the night sky —
possibly the reentry vehicle from one of North Korea’s July 28 missile
test. Did it burn up? Survive? If if it did, or did not, what does that
mean for North Korea’s ability to deliver a nuclear weapon to targets
throughout the …
A
quick post before the Thanksgiving holiday here in the U.S. In my
professional life, I am especially grateful for high frequency satellite
imagery. This week Planet Lab’s SkySat sensor allowed us to make two
very interesting observations about China’s SSBN program. Jeffrey Lewis
and I both gave a few comments to Defense One, but …
Quotes
of the week: “Atomic energy seems to present choices that defy wide
popular understanding and control. So far, the control of such decisions
is a kind of indigestible element in the operation of democratic
politics.” — Robert A. Dahl, “Atomic Energy and the Democratic Process,”
1953. “The death of democracy is not likely to be …
On
this Veterans/Armistice Day, I’m reprinting a post from August 24,
2010, “The Least Abhorrent Choice.” The military cemetery at Nettuno,
thirty miles south of Rome, is serene and immaculately kept. Almost as
many GIs are buried there – 7,861 – as at Normandy, painful testimony of
how botched the Italian campaign was. I’m named …
With
the US on the precipice of withdrawing from the INF, all eyes have
turned to China and its large number of INF range missiles. The think
tank community has followed and a bevy of think pieces on basing modes
in Asia have been published. On this week’s episode, Jeffrey and Aaron
talk about the …
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Dear
Friends and Family, It has been hectic here at the National Office, and
I want to bring you all up to date on our needs for financial help. We n
Dear Friends and Family, It has been hectic here at the National
Office, and I want to bring you all up to date on our needs for
financial help. We need help on paying Leonard's legal
Saturday,
today, at AIM WestPhoto by Tony Gonzalez By Tony Gonzalez AIM West
Censored News Location 2969 Mission Street San Francisco . Welcome all
my American Indian Movement-West (AIM-WEST), an inter-tribal non-profit
human rights organization based in San Francisco is pleased to welcome
everyone to its annual AIM-West Coast Conference/Summit in San Francisco
beginning
.
Friday, November, 16, 2018 Contact: protectpeaks@gmail.com
www.protectthepeaks.org Indigenous Peoples Denied Access to Sacred Site
as Ski Area Opens with Sewage Snow By Indigenous Action Censored News
Flagstaff, Ariz. — Continuing years of ecological destruction, threats
to public health, and desecration and assault on Indigenous Peoples’
ways of life, Arizona Snowbowl
Military
vehicles like this one swarmed the Tohono O'odham region today, because
of the racist hysteria of the U.S. President. U.S. soldiers are now
used as pawns in psychotic breakdown -- as U S. government bottoms out
By Brenda Norrell Censored News LUKEVILLE, Arizona-- Lukeville is just
beyond the western edge of the Tohono O'odham Nation. It is a small
border crossing vital to locals
.
Indigen.ous Organizers Face Political Attack by Flagstaff Police for
Anti-Columbus Day Demonstration By Indigenous Action Censored News
OCCUPIED FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Flagstaff police stalked and cited an
Indigenous organizer in so-called Flagstaff, Arizona last night for
their alleged role in a demonstration that took to the streets the
previous month on what is now recognized as "
Centauri Dreams
We’d like to know a lot more than we do about how planets create
magnetic fields. After all, a major motivation for exoplanet research
(though hardly the only one) is to find out whether there is other life
in the universe. A magnetic field can protect planetary atmospheres from
the effects of the host star’s stellar wind, a stream of charged
particles that could disrupt life’s formation. Planets
Some relatives of a friend recently made me realize how routine
exoplanet discoveries have become to the public. These are anything but
astronomy buffs, but they know that planets can be found without ever
being seen. My acquaintances may not understand radial velocity or
transits to any high degree, but they accept that the methods are there
and have proven reliable. “Someday,” said one, “I gues
As the exoplanet hunt deepens, we’re seeing how research efforts build
upon each other, and how the findings of one investigation play into the
planning for another. Kepler candidate planets, for example, have been
confirmed using ground-based telescopes in radial velocity
investigations, giving an independent check that the putative world is
really there. TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satell
It’s a long name, but with the successful arrival of the Interior
Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport
(InSight) lander on Mars, we now go to work on the planet’s deep
interior. With Centauri Dreams ’ deep space perspective, my thoughts
quickly turn to other stellar systems. We’ve all seen how hard it is to
land on Mars, and have looked up into the night sky to fin
I never saw the 2008 film WALL·E , which was all the rage not long
after its release. A computer animated science fiction movie, WALL·E won
a slew of awards including a Golden Globe for best animated feature, a
Nebula for best script, and an Academy Award, as well as making Time ’s
list of best movies of the decade. Bringing it to mind this morning,
though, is the recent success of the InSight mi
The detection of a planet around Barnard’s Star really hits home for
me. No, this isn’t a habitable world, but the whole topic of planets
around this star has resonance for those of us who remember the earliest
days of exoplanet study, which could be extended back to Peter van de
Kamp’s work at Swarthmore’s Sproul Observatory in Pennsylvania. The
astronomer thought he had found evidence for a 1.6
Craig Murray
The right wing Ecuadorean government of President Moreno continues to
churn out its production line of fake documents regarding Julian
Assange, and channel them straight to MI6 mouthpiece Luke Harding of the
Guardian. Amazingly, more Ecuadorean Government documents have just
been discovered for the Guardian, this time spy agency reports detailing
visits of Paul Manafort and unspecified “Russians”
I explain this in detail about every three years, but it is plain from
my twitter stream today I have made no significant inroads into public
consciousness. MI6 officers, when operating abroad, do so 99% of the
time disguised as British diplomats. They serve three or four year
postings like other Embassy staff and will have a “cover job” doing
something else in the Embassy. Back home in the UK th
Prima facie , it is Russia which is acting illegally in the Kerch
Strait. As I wrote when it was the Russians who were being harassed in
the English Channel: Contrary to Article 44 of the UN Convention on the
Law of the Sea , to which the UK and Russia are both party, the UK has
engaged in extensive illegal harassment of a Russian naval submarine
engaged in fully lawful transit of the Dover Strai
I have signed the below Open Letter against the expulsion from the SNP
of the long term blogger Gareth Wardell, known as Grouse Beater. AN OPEN
LETTER TO THE SNP AND THE WIDER SCOTTISH INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT In
writing this joint statement we, the undersigned – bloggers and other
influencers in the campaign for Scottish independence, affirm our
commitment to independence and to the unity of the in
I have never managed fully to understand the mechanism by which the
media and political class decide when to leave a fact, a glaringly
obvious and vital fact, completely excluded from public debate. That
process of exclusion is a psychological, not an organisational,
phenomenon but extremely effective. Brexit continues to dominate
mainstream political discussion, and the Northern Ireland border i
The death of Raed Fares in Syria reminds us that there was a moment in
Syria when protest was led by secular democrats keen to see the end of
decades of one family rule. That he was killed by the Islamist rebels
the West is now actively supporting – and the fact that all the western
news reports have sought to elide that fact – is sign of how horribly it
has all gone wrong. The assault on Hodeida
David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary
Carl von Clausewitz, the Prussian aphorist and theoretician of war,
famously observed that “war is the continuation of politics by other
means.” Something like the opposite – that politics is the prosecution
of war by other means, or darn close anyway – is likely true as well. I
hope I offend no gentle readers by describing politics in warlike terms.
I do so because the metaphor helps explain the
When Alberta Advanced Education Minister Marlin Schmidt was tossed out
of the Legislature Wednesday morning for supposedly insulting an
Opposition MLA, the kerfuffle that resulted obviously came as welcome
relief to United Conservative Party Leader Jason Kenney. In recent
weeks, Mr. Kenney has often been on the run, sometimes almost literally,
from questions by journalists about the views some of
While Albertans have been in flap over the state of the province’s
oilsands industry, the Big Five Oilsands extraction corporations have
been raking in billions. “Despite the 2014 oil price crash and the
ongoing hand-wringing over pipelines and the price differential, the
reality is the Big Five oilsands producers have remained incredibly
profitable corporations,” says one of the authors of a new
For what was supposed to be a fresh news story, an old report from the
Beaverton circulating on social media yesterday actually came closest to
accurately describing what went on in the so-called debate last night
between alt-right U.S. political agitator Stephen Bannon and the
neoliberal propagandist David Frum. The Beaverton is Canadian a
news-satire website. But what’s funny about two powerful
American Republicans mostly hitched their wagons to Donald Trump’s dark
star in this year’s U.S. mid-term elections, and notwithstanding
passage of control of the House of Representatives to the Democrats it
has worked remarkably well for them. If you imagine this lesson is lost
on Canadian movement conservatives, think again. The politics of
Trumpism were already here in Canada, of course. Fear,
Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in
Edmonton for the week ended Nov. 4, 2018. The lists are compiled by
Audreys Books and provided by the Book Publishers Association of
Alberta. EDMONTON FICTION BESTSELLERS 1. Translating Air – Kath MacLean *
2. A Season Among Psychics – Elizabeth Greene 3. The Flame – Leonard
Cohen 4. Unsheltered – Barbara Kingsolver 5. Watch
From the Wilderness' Peak Oil Blog
From Jenna Orkin EXCLUSIVE: FBI RAIDS HOME OF WHISTLEBLOWER ON CLINTON
FOUNDATION, LAWYER SAYS How Your Pet Contributes to Climate Change 500
million Marriott customers have had their data hacked after staying at
hotels including W, Sheraton, and Westin Russia is gathering tanks on
our border, says Ukraine, as it activates sweeping martial law powers
GoFundMe Page Seeking $920 Million To Replace
From Jenna Orkin Garbage Patch in Pacific Now Three Times Size of
France video . Thousands of Towns Vulnerable to Contaminated Water It Is
Possible Paul Manafort Visited Julian Assange. If True, There Sho Be
Ample Video and Other Evidence Showing Thi s - Greenwald Integrity
Initiative - "Defending Democracy Against Disinformation" Poo found on
every McDonald’s touchscreen tested Police raided Deu
From Jenna Orkin Trump, Zinke to Auction Away 700,000 Acres of Western
Public Lands for Fracking Patagonia Donating its $10 Million Trump Tax
Cut to Environmental Groups China Blacklists Millions of People from
Booking Flights as "Social Credit" System Introduced Ukrainian President
Warns Of "Full-Scale War With Russia" In Televised Interview In
Dramatic Reversal, Theresa May Will Allow Parliamen
From Jenna Orkin Insect Apocalypse - NYTimes Express on Peter Dale
Scott's book - REVEALED: The SHOCKING links between JFK's assassination
and 9/11 As Tensions Surge, UK Releases Video Of 17 "Hostile" Russian
Jets Buzzing Warship Near Crimea Sensitive Facebook documents were
seized by British Parliament after the creator of a bikini app
'panicked' Amazon Says Cyber Monday Sales Surged 20% To New
From Jenna Orkin Chinese Scientists Creating CRISPR Babies "I'm Not
Going To Agree That I Lied": Corsi Rejects Mueller's Plea Deal, Plans To
Sue GM will stop building cars at 3 North American factories and cut
its salaried workforce by 15% in 2019 as it shifts to electric and
self-driving cars Russia confirms it fired at Ukrainian ships in major
escalation of Crimea tensions Ukraine Declares Mart
From Jenna Orkin All Humanity (and quite a few animals as well)
Descended from Two People THE SCIENCE IS CLEAR: DIRTY FARM WATER IS
MAKING US SICK Sprayed - (Zika) Beijing to Judge Every Resident Based on
Behavior by End of 2020 The EPA Can’t Wait to Reopen the Mine That
Poisoned North Idaho Police fatally shot a man after gunfire broke out
at an Alabama mall on Thanksgiving — then conceded he 'l
GlobaLove Think Tank
Death is like sex we all find it in our own way.
You've felt it your entire life Are you living a Rat Race ? What if money didn't matter ?
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